Evelyne Postic – The World As A Labyrinth
1.11. – 30.11.24
Exhibitions:
2024 The World as a Labyrinth, Galerie Kremers, Berlin
2019 2nd Triennial of Visionary Art, MNMU Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
2014-2019 Outsider Art Fair, Paris (with Galerie Polysemie, Marseille)
2016-2020 Outsider Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York (with Galerie Polysemie, Marseille)
2018 Varum Art, Musée d’art Contemporain de ULM Allemagne
2018 Gallery Dettinger-Mayer, Lyon, France
2017 L’Immaginaire Brut, Galerie Delacroix- avec l’institut Français de Tanger- en collaboration avec la galerie Conil Tanger, Morocco
2012 Vibrations Originelles, Galerie de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
Evelyne Postic (Mazaloubaud ) was born in 1951 in Lyon at the Hôtel Dieu, France. She is a self-taught artist and is categorised as “Outsider Artist”. Her works have been exhibited at the Outsider Art Fair in New York among other places.
Evelyne’s first passion was dancing, but this dream was extinguished by a serious lung disease at the age of five. At the same time, her parents separated and she was taken to various children’s homes, where she suffered from a feeling of abandonment from then on.
Her life between her grandparents and mother is oppressive and she makes her first attempts to escape with paper and crayons on the kitchen table, through the window she can see the dye-works opposite every day and colored water from its running into the gutter.
At school, she is enthusiastic about the fine arts. Her mother is against it.
At the age of 18, she elopes with the man who becomes her first husband and with whom she has three children.
After twelve years of living together, the couple separated.
Evelyne Postic moved to Grenoble with her three children, where she invented a parallel world to escape the hardships of everyday life and begins to paint and draw forms in which the human, the vegetable and the animal intermingle.
She works on the adaptation of living beings to their environment, with the development of species in order to survive.
Survival is also what she does every day with her three children she has to look after.
She is fascinated by the infinite variety of forms in the marine, terrestrial and invisible worlds. Biology and science inspire her.
Like a river that has been dammed up for too long, she is tirelessly creative in the evenings and works small jobs during the day to make ends meet.
It will be a long road that she divides between her quest to become an artist and raising her children, eventually leading to a remarkable career. She is known internationally as an outsider artist, has traveled as far as her place of longing, Africa, and is still on the road a lot. We are glad that her artistic path has now led her to Berlin.